Focusing on the bribery scandal plaguing global healthcare giant GlaxoSmithKline LLC (GSK), this manuscript documents and offers proposals to redress the myriad of harms caused when multinational corporations (MNCs) accept bribery as an unspoken cost of doing business in connected societies....

The M&A transactions represent a wide range of unique business optimization opportunities in the corporate transformation deals, which are usually characterized by the high level of total risk. The M&A transactions can be successfully implemented by taking to an account the size of investments,...

We show the most relevant literature regarding the corporate governance system of Codetermination, which includes the presence of workers' representatives on the board. The aim is to thoroughly analyse the topic and to fill a gap present in the current literature, the absence of an updated and...

The recent publication of the IPCC Report on climate change published this week has been described as ‘the most in-depth to date, in terms of forecasting the impact of global warming in specific detail in addition to emphasising the social consequences in terms of conflicts and displacement....

The entire architecture of contemporary corporate governance is reminiscent of a house of cards. This particular metaphor invokes two ideas that are important for understanding the current state of the debate surrounding corporate governance. Firstly, it captures the fragile facade of corporate...

The article discusses the nature of corporate personhood and the propriety of using certain types of evidence to prove corporate misconduct. Under Federal Rule of Evidence 404, the character evidence rule, evidence of a person's bad character generally is not admissible to prove that a person...

This paper deals with the corporate governance thematic area of the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM). Its contribution to the literature is twofold: (1) It provides additional evidence that a microeconomic perspective of studying governance leads to a better understanding of key reform...

Directors of corporations governed by a single board (i) Have excessive and unethical powers to become quot;Sources of riskquot; and (ii) Lack processes to systematically obtain information independently of management on the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) of either their...

Directors of corporations governed by a single board are exposed to (i) reputational risk with personal liability from possessing absolute power to manage their own conflicts of interest and (ii) absence of power to systematically obtain information independently of management on the Strengths,...